Romney And Obama To Meet For Lunch On Thursday

WASHINGTON — Defeated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will have lunch with President Barack Obama at the White House tomorrow, the administration announced Wednesday.

The meeting, in the Private Dining Room on the Residence level of the Executive Mansion, will be closed to reporters and photographers, the White House said in a brief statement.

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In his news conference the following week, Obama said he looked forward to sitting down with Romney because “there are certain aspects of Governor Romney’s record and his ideas that I think could be very helpful.”

“It was a gracious invitation from the president, which Mitt Romney was glad to accept,” a top Romney aide said of the meeting.

No word on whether the White House chef will be preparing a generous serving of crow.

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Hopefully Romney will explain that it is not the president’s job–or the government’s–to serve African-Americans, Hispanics, young people, or women, and that by promising to do so Obama stole the election through bribery.

But seriously, I understand the gesture, but what could Mitt Romney possibly have to offer here? It’s clear he holds most Americans in contempt and harbors a great deal of bitterness that those worthless moochers didn’t vote for him, and since he never had any details about what he would do as president if elected, of what use could he be? Car elevator recommendations?

In any event, on a serious note, not that the foregoing couldn’t actually happen, I have to say that I’ve never heard of something like this. Perhaps there’s a history buff who’ll set me straight, but I dare say this is unprecedented.

Reading between the lines one has to surmise that Obama might be planning to offer Romney some sort of business czar/consultant type of position, no? At a certain level that could make some sense. Thereby to give the liberal Democrat media the means by which they could portray Obama as being all concerned about businesses, job creation, bipartisanship, etc., while further marginalizing Romney.

Democrats don’t take dumps without some sort of angle or plan.

But if that’s not the case, and if this really is a lunch and skull session with no ulterior or Machiavellian purposes, then, shizzle, maybe Obama sufficiently has been mugged by reality that he’s actually developing degrees of maturity and humility. Stranger things have happened, I guess.

It’s obviously a plot to corrupt Romney by offering him a government meal. As we know from Romney’s campaign, all it takes is one tax payer funded bite to turn him into a mindless minion of the dreaded 47%

Anyway, I do wonder what the point of this is. It’s one thing if Mitt was in government (like, say, McCain). But he’s not. He’s not exactly the standard-bearer for his party. So what is it? Some sort of warm fuzzy photo op thing? Gag me.

I’ve seen a lot of people asking if this meeting is a first. Obama met with McCain a few weeks after the election in 2008, although it was under slightly different circumstances, Obama was not yet the president, the meeting took place in Chicago and I think it was organised by Lindsey Graham.

Maybe Obama wants to know why a guy like Romney, who like so many conservatives, considers CA to be a decadent failed state, chose to live there instead of some conservative paradise like Dallas, Oklahoma City, or Columbia SC?

Maybe Obama wants to know what’s in Romney’s tax returns that he is so unwilling to reveal. Maybe he’s still curious like some of us still are about those tax returns. While we’re on the subject, does Romney losing means that we’ll never know what he might be hiding in his tax returns?